18 June, 2014

MUSLIM FOOTBALLERS

One
would have thought that Muslims would constitute at least one fifth of all
footballers participating in the on-going world cup, in proportion to their
share of world population. One recognizes that Islam doesn't ostensibly
prohibit football - at least for men - notwithstanding the Boko Haram
dictate.

We have known that the Muslim share in Nobel Laureates, contemporary
Physicists, Chemists, Mathematicians, Engineers, Geographers, Economists,
Technologists and Scientists in general is not up to the mark.

We also know that a significant number of Muslim countries suffer poverty and
paucity of resources - despite the oil rich few possessing enough wealth to
draw parity with Christians.

But football and athletics being affordable sports one might think that Muslims
have made a mark in these fields.

If this is not so, as appears the case, I invite Muslims and Muslim-friendly
non-Muslims to ponder why, and what ought to be done to correct this situation.